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Camera Lucida : Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Camera Lucida : Reflections on Photography about?
<p>This personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume—and the last book Barthes published—finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography. To this end, several black-and-white photos (by the likes of Avedon, Clifford, Hine, Mapplethorpe, Nadar, Van Der Zee, and so forth) are reprinted throughout the text.</p> <p>Barthes' last work before his death in 1980 is a profound, personal and disturbing confrontation with the ecstacy of image. </p>
Who reads Camera Lucida : Reflections on Photography?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Roland Barthes
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 1982
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780809033409
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Photography, Philosophy, Arts
- Rating
- 3.93 / 5 (27,088 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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